ok doser
lifeguard at the cement pond
That there was inhumanity shown in other places by other people doesn't change our own U.S. history of slavery, the treatment of Blacks as less than human, as property to be bought, sold and abused, to be segregated from the civil rights enjoyed by other citizens. It's a history you want to downplay, for God only knows what reason.
not sure why you think i want to downplay it
as it was practiced in the American south and the Caribbean, it was wrong, it was evil and the white people involved in it - like town's ancestor - were evil men who deserved summary execution
here's a newsflash for you: slavery was ended 152 years ago